 The final chapter in the Skytrader's development was the entry of the Scout in a US Army competition for an intelligence gathering aircraft.During the late 1980s, the U.S. Southern Command became interested in acquiring a reconnaissance aircraft which would do well in the rugged terrain and with the clandestine operations that the command was executing at the time.A contest, named Grizzly Hunter, was opened for interested contractors to enter candidate aircraft for consideration.